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tomy (iou) and Brunswick (iou)


tomy (iou)



-tomy suffix.
[from Greek -tomia, from -tomos cutting, from temnein to cut: cf. -ECTOMY, -STOMY.]
Medicine. Forming nouns denoting surgical operations in which an incision is made into an organ or part, as cystotomy, laparotomy, tracheotomy, etc.
Forming nouns with the sense 'cutting up', as anatomy, zootomy.
Forming nouns with the sense 'division into parts', as dichotomy, etc.

Brunswick (iou)



Brunswick noun. L15.
[In branch I from Brunswick, a city and province of northern Germany, Low German Brunswik, German Braunschweig; in branch II, from a county named after this in Virginia, US.]
I.
A fabric or garment from Brunswick; esp. (in full Brunswick gown) a long-sleeved gown with a train from the shoulders. obsolete exc. Hist. L15.
Brunswick green, a dark green pigment orig. made of a basic chloride of copper; this shade of green. E19.
II.
Brunswick stew, a stew of squirrel, now also of game or chicken, with onions and sometimes Other Vegetables. US. M19.